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The National Frame : Art and State Violence in Turkey and Germany by Banu Karaca is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The National Frame : Art and State Violence in Turkey and Germany about?
The book reveals how art worlds are crucial sites for unmasking state violence and dispossession.The book is a primer for studying local formations of the global art world. Based on long-term ethnographic research in the art worlds of Istanbul and Berlin, The National Frame rethinks the politics of art by focusing on the role of art in state governance. It argues that artistic practices, arts patronage and sponsorship, collecting and curating art, and the modalities of censorship continue to be refracted through the conceptual lens of the nation-state, despite the globalization of the arts. By examining discussions of the civilizing function of art in Turkey and Germany and particularly moments in which art is seen to cede this function, The National Frame reveals the histories of violence on which the production, circulation, and, very understanding of art are predicated. Karaca examines this darker side of art in two cities in which art and its institutions have been intertwined with symbolic and material dispossession. The particularities of German and Turkish contexts, both marked by attempts to claim modern nationhood through the arts; illuminate how art is staked to memory an
Who reads The National Frame : Art and State Violence in Turkey and Germany?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Banu Karaca
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780823290208
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Art, History, Political Science